Airport Belo Horizonte (Brazil) - Pampulha Domestic

Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade
IATA: PLU ICAO: SBBH
Summary
Airport type		Public/Military
Operator		Infraero
Serves		Belo Horizonte
Elevation AMSL		2,589 ft / 789 m
Coordinates		19°5104S 043°5702W / 19.85111°S 43.95056°W / -19.85111; -43.95056
Website		Infraero PLU
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
13/31	2,505	8,220	Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Passengers			561,189
Aircraft Operations			57,776
Metric tonnes of cargo			not available
Sources: Airport Website[1], Infraero[2]

Belo Horizonte Airport (IATA: PLU, ICAO: SBBH), officially known as Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, is an airport located in the Pampulha district, eight kilometers from Belo Horizonte downtown, in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.

On November 16, 2004, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva officially changed the name of the airport to Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in homage to Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, born in Itabira, a city in the state of Minas Gerais.

In April 2005, the state's government decided to move most of its traffic to Tancredo Neves International Airport (Confins), because Pampulha could not handle the amount of traffic it was receiving. Since then only aircraft with a capacity of up to 50 passengers can operate here. Therefore, most of the flights are related to intrastate journeys and to/from adjoining states, and general aviation.

Contents 1 Airlines and destinations 2 Accidents and incidents 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Minas	Governador Valadares, Ipatinga, Montes Claros, Uberaba, Uberlândia
Passaredo	Ribeirão Preto, São José do Rio Preto
Trip	Araxá, Cabo Frio, Campinas, Campo Grande, Cascavel, Curitiba, Diamantina, Goiânia, Governador Valadares, Ipatinga, Juiz de Fora, Montes Claros, Patos de Minas, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Verde, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia, São João del-Rei, Uberaba, Uberlândia, Vitória, Vitória da Conquista

Accidents and incidents

• 27 September 1946: Panair do Brasil, a Douglas DC-3-228D registration PP-PCH flying from Belo Horizonte-Pampulha to Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont airport crashed into a mountain near the location of Alto Rio Doce. All 25 passengers and crew died.

• 31 May 1954: Transportes Aéreos Nacional, a Douglas DC-3/C-47A-80-DL registration PP-ANO en route from Governador Valadares to Belo Horizonte-Pampulha strayed off course and struck Mount Cipó in cloudy conditions. All 19 passengers and crew died.

• 24 June 1960: Real Transportes Aéreos, a Convair CV-340-62 registration PP-YRB, flying from Belo Horizonte-Pampulha to Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont airport crashed into Guanabara Bay in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro - Galeão International Airport due to unknown causes. All 54 passengers and crew died.

• 23 October 1973: Vasp, a NAMC YS-11A-211 registration PP-SMJ, flying from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to Belo Horizonte-Pampulha airport, during an aborted take-off over-run the runway and slid into Guanabara Bay. Of the 65 passengers and crew, 8 passengers died.

See also

• List of the busiest airports in Brazil

References

1. ^ Airport Official Website
2. ^ Infraero Statistics for the Airport

External links

• Airport information for SBBH at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.. Source: DAFIF.
• Airport information for SBBH at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
• Current weather for SBBH at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for PLU at Aviation Safety Network

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